1. Jean Paul Sartre–Print out and read the following sections on Sartre’s philosophy: Ontology and Psychology.. Among other things pay particular attention to the Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself. We begin Nausea this weekend. This novel is quite challenging to wrap your head around and simply cannot be understood without understanding the concepts above. Print out the two sections and bring them to class on Monday.
2. Nausea–Read and annotate through p. 18. Keep the following in mind while annotating:
“The strangest thing is that I am not at all inclined to call myself insane, I clearly see that I am not: all these changes concern objects. At least, that is what I’d like to be sure of.” (2)
“Something has happened to me, I can’t doubt it any more.” (4)
Also keep in mind that this novel chronicles Roquentin’s existential illness and his road to understanding and “recovery.”